Relationships are like trees. They start out as saplings and grow as they are nurtured and nourished with love, care, trust and time. The longer and more purely they are nurtured, the stronger and more robust they grow. Some require care continuously, others thrive even with sporadic watering, some shrivel and get stunted if smothered with excess sunshine, but starve them completely and they will all eventually die.
Relationships die in several ways. Some die slowly over years of neglect and abuse. So slowly you wake up one day and find your feelings have died quietly a while ago and you never noticed. And then you keep watering a dead plant hoping it comes alive somehow.
Some relationships die suddenly- like somebody hacked their roots mercilessly - killing in a series of bloody swipes, something that was thriving till yesterday. Killed carelessly to make way for something else. And then there are the most unfortunate ones - the forest fires- where trees growing all together in proximity all get burnt down by an unfortunate spark in one.
And finally there are those, whose branches get chopped off, or lose their leaves and flowers to weather a cold storm, but whose roots are intact, waiting to flower when spring arrives.
Relationships die in several ways. Some die slowly over years of neglect and abuse. So slowly you wake up one day and find your feelings have died quietly a while ago and you never noticed. And then you keep watering a dead plant hoping it comes alive somehow.
Some relationships die suddenly- like somebody hacked their roots mercilessly - killing in a series of bloody swipes, something that was thriving till yesterday. Killed carelessly to make way for something else. And then there are the most unfortunate ones - the forest fires- where trees growing all together in proximity all get burnt down by an unfortunate spark in one.
And finally there are those, whose branches get chopped off, or lose their leaves and flowers to weather a cold storm, but whose roots are intact, waiting to flower when spring arrives.
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